On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Ilya Ilembitov <ilembi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just ran across this post about > NetBSD:http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/nb_20100430_2300.html > > Turns out, they have a special boottime option that lets the OS boot > (almost) without any messages. Which I found even more appealing that > some graphical bootsplash images. Does OpenBSD have anything like > that?
Nope. > Google left me with nothing. What if I am running the same > stable release of OpenBSD on my box for a month and don't need any > verbosity, since I don't change anything (so the system is unlikely to > fail)? Gotcha: you don't need any verbosity, except when you do. I suggest you report when something is excessively verbose, but otherwise ignore the output. Since you don't actually state what your problem is, I declare that this solves your problem. ... > But what if my system couldn't actually boot? Sounds like something you'll need to think about if you decide to develop this "silent boot" feature for yourself. What sort of support/usability tradeoffs will you be willing to make when you write it? Philip Guenther
